Mommy Daddy Evan Sage - Brossura

Mchenry, Eric

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1904130453 ISBN 13: 9781904130451

Casa editrice: Waywiser Pr, 2011

Riassunto

Poetry. Illustrated by Nicholas Garland. "If you see a vulture, don't play dead."

Childhood can be a confusing time, but not to Evan and Sage. They've got the world pretty well figured out, and are happy to explain it to their perplexed parents: "A monkey and an ape are not the same," / said Sage. "The monkey has a longer name." In this book of funny, fanciful poems and woodcuts, Eric McHenry and Nicholas Garland pay tender tribute to parents and the children who run circles around them.

"The poems celebrate quotidian family life, centring on two children—Evan, seven, and Sage, two—and the questions they ask, the theories they have and the unexpected flashes they show of knowing exactly how the world really works, as the above poem demonstrates. The girl's coy glance out at the reader is a typical Garland flourish, and elsewhere his woodcuts complement the mood of the poetry beautifully."—The Daily Telegraph (UK)

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Recensione

"'A consequence,' Sage said, 'is when / you take my favourite toy away / and I look at the floor and say / "Sorry" and get it back again.' This is one of the 30-odd poems in a delightful new collection from Eric McHenry... illustrated with characteristic boldness by Nicholas Garland... The poems celebrate quotidian family life, centring on two children Evan, seven, and Sage, two and the questions they ask, the theories they have and the unexpected flashes they show of knowing exactly how the world really works, as the above poem demonstrates. The girl s coy glance out at the reader is a typical Garland flourish, and elsewhere his woodcuts complement the mood of the poetry beautifully."
-- Toby Clements, The Daily Telegraph

"A frolicking narrative poem about a very imaginative seven year old boy, his not quite two year old sister, and their bemused and befuddled mother and father."
--The Midwest Book Review

L'autore

Eric McHenry's first book of poems, Potscrubber Lullabies (Waywiser, 2006), won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and in 2010 Poetry Northwest awarded him the Theodore Roethke Prize. He is a contributing editor of Columbia magazine and has written about poetry for the New York Times Book Review, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Boston Globe and Slate. He lives in Topeka with his wife and their two childre. In 2015 he was appointed Poet Laureate of Kansas.

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• Editore: Waywiser Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1904130453
• ISBN 13: 9781904130451
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 64
• Disegnatore: Garland Nicholas